Dudleya lanceolata (Nutt.) Britt. & Rose

Dudleya lanceolata (Nutt.) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y
Bot. Gard. 3: 23. 1903.
Echeveria lanceolata Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 561. 1840. Cotyledon lanceolata Benth. & Hook.; S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 211. 1876.
Acaulescent ; green or slightly glaucous. Basal leaves numerous, lanceolate, longacuminate, the outer 10-15 cm, long, 1.5-2 cm. wide ; scapes stout, 4-6 dm. tall, their leaves lanceolate from a broad cordate or sagittate base, acuminate, the uppermost 1 cm. long or less ; cyme 10 cm. broad or less ; pedicels stout, 3-8 mm. long ; calyx:-segments broadly ovate, acute or obtusish, about 4 mm. long ; corolla reddish-yellow, 12-16 mm. long.
Type locality : San Diego, California.
Distribution : Southern California.

Dudleya congesta Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 25. 1903
Acaulescent, green throughout, not at all glaucous. Basal leaves rhombic-lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, sharply acuminate, dull, 5 cm. long or less, 1.5-2 cm. wide; flowering branch stout, about 13 cm. tall, erect, its cordatesagittate leaves numerous, triangular, acute to acuminate, the lower 1 cm. long, the upper much smaller; cyme compound, dense, about 6 cm. broad ; pedicels very stout and short, 3 mm. long or less, erect ; calyx as long as or a little shorter than the pedicels, its lobes ovate, sharply acute, longer than its tube. slightly longer than wide ; corolla lemon-yellow, about three times as long as the calyx, its lanceolate segments acute, separate to below the tips of the cal3^-lobes.
Type locality : Southern California. Distribution ; Kaiown only from the type locality.

Dudleya lurida Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 22. 1903
Acaulescent. Basal leaves ascending or nearly erect, very numerous, not at all glaucous at flowering time, at last deeply bronzed, lanceolate-acuminate, 10-15 cm. long, 10-22 mm. broad at the middle, fleshy but not very thick for this genus ; flowering stems stout, purplish, 4-5 dm. tall, their leaves broadly ovate, acute, clasping, 0.7-2 cm. long; inflorescence paniculate, the branches elongated ; pedicels 8-12 mm. long, rather slender ; caly:x-lobes ovate, acute, 5-6 mm. long, reddish; corolla reddish, 12-15 mm. long, the segments erect, acute .
Type locality : Santa Monica Mountains, I^os Angeles County, California.
Distribution : Southern California.

Dudleya hallii Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 17. 1903
Acaulescent. Basal leaves erect or spreading, elongated-lanceolate, acute, very pale and glaucous, thickish, 10-12 cm. long ; flowering stems stout, 3-4 dm. long, their leaves ovate, the lower ones somewhat elongated, slightly cordate at base ; inflorescence a rather short panicle, not at all glaucous ; pedicels very short (about 2 mm. long) ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, 5 mm. long ; corolla 15 mm. long, pale-green tinged with rose.
Type locality : Near Riverside, California. Distribution : Type locality and vicinity.

Dudleya elongata Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 28. 1903
Stems elongated, at length 2^ dm. long, simple or branched; leaves nearly linear, broadest near the base, very glaucous, 4-8 cm. long, 9 mm. wide or less, acute to acuminate; flowering stems leafless below, leafy above, the leaves ovate, acute, cordate, 1 cm. long or less ; inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; pedicels very short, 1-2 mm. long ; calyxlobes ovate, acute, 4 mm. long, twice as long as the tube ; corolla 12 mm. long, at first reddish-yellow, in age deep-red.
Type locality : Near San Pedro, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Dudleya reflexa Britton, sp. nov
Acaulescent, the basal leaves numerous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 7 or 8 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide, spreading, bright-green and shining, not at all glaucous. Flowering stems stout, weak, about 2 dm. long, their leaves triangular-lanceolate, sagittate, 2 cm. long or less, the lower strongly reflexed, the upper shorter and broader, triangular-ovate, spreading or reflexed; inflorescence of three one-sided racemes, each forked, 1-1.5 dm. long, recurved, stout, light-green ; pedicels stout, 1,5 cm. long or less; calyx about 8 mm. long, 5-cleft, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, twice as long as the tube, green and shining ; corolla 15-18 mm. long, light-red to pink, its segments lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 times as long as the tube ; stamens about three-fourths as long as the corolla, a little shorter than the erect pistils, which are separate to the base.
Southern California, sent by Miss Mary T. Bryce in 1902 ; flowered at the New York Botanical Garden, November, 1903.

Dudleya robusta Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 21. 1903
Acaulescent. Basal leaves numerous, ascending, lanceolate, acuminate, light-green, sometimes slightly glaucous, 10-15 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide; flowering branches stout, leafy to or nearly to the base, 4-5 dm. high, erect-ascending, their leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, sagittate, the upper ones very small, the lower 4-6 cm. long; cyme manyflowered, about 10 cm. broad; pedicels, or some of them, at length 1-1.5 cm. long, whiteglaucous; calyx 5-6 mm. long, deeply cleft, its lobes ovate, sharply acute, white-glaucous; corolla about 1.3 cm. long, orange, cleft to below the middle, the lobes acute.
Type locality : Southern California. Distribution : Southern California.

Dudleya minor Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 19. 1903
Acaulescent, or very old plants with a carrot-shaped rootstock 5 cm. long, crowned by a small rosette of spreading leaves. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, the larger ones 5-7 cm. long, narrowed at base, abruptly acuminate, glaucous ; inflorescence slender, with a few elongated one-sided racemes; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm. long; calyx 5-7 mm. long, its lobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla yellow or pale-orange, 12 mm. long, its tube 2 mm. long.
Type locality : San Gabriel Canon, altitude 600 to 700 meters, Los Angeles County, California. Distribution : Type locality and vicinity.